Christopher Varner, '96 Elected Tennessee Bar Foundation Fellow

Christopher T. Varner has recently been elected a Fellow of the Tennessee Bar Foundation, an association of 801 attorneys across the state. Invitations to membership, which is a position of honor, were extended to 29 attorneys this year by the Board of Trustees. The introduction of new Fellows took place at the annual Fellows' Dinner in Nashville.

The Bar Foundation's purpose is two-fold: to honor attorneys who have distinguished themselves in the profession and to administer a grant making program. That project, known by its acronym “IOLTA” (Interest On Lawyers' Trust Accounts), has awarded grants in excess of $20,000,000 to law-related, public interest projects throughout Tennessee.

Mr. Varner is a partner in the firm of Evans Harrison Hackett, PLLC and has been practicing law in Chattanooga, Tennessee for 19 years. He is a graduate of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and of the University of Cincinnati College of Law.

Mark L. Newmann named as 2015 Ohio Super Lawyers

CINCINNATI, OH( December 03, 2014)-The law firm of Barron Peck Bennie & Schlemmer Co., L.P.A. (BPBS) is pleased to announce that Mark L. Newman, a resident of Symmes Township, has been recognized as 2015 Ohio Super Lawyers®. This recognition continues the tradition of Super Lawyers designation for the attorneys of BPBS.

Ohio Super Lawyers showcases outstanding lawyers in Ohio who are recognized by their peers for professional accomplishments. Only five percent of Ohio lawyers are chosen as Ohio Super Lawyers. In selecting this year’s group of honorees, candidates were evaluated on 12 indicators of peer recognition and professional achievement.

For over 20 years, Mark Newman has devoted his practice to helping injured and disabled individuals pursue claims related to workers’ compensation and social security disability. Mark Newman was named an Ohio Super Lawyer in 2006, 2011 and now again in 2015 for Workers’ Compensation area of practice. Mark is an Ohio Certified Workers’ Compensation Specialist.

Super Lawyers, a Thomson Reuters business, is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. The annual selections are made using a patented multiphase process that includes a statewide survey of lawyers, an independent research evaluation of candidates and peer reviews by practice area. The result is a credible, comprehensive and diverse listing of exceptional attorneys. Only five percent of Ohio lawyers are chosen as Ohio Super Lawyers.

About Barron Peck Bennie & Schlemmer, Co., L.P.A.

With offices in Oakley, Over-the-Rhine and Northern Kentucky, BPBS provides comprehensive legal services for individual and commercial clients in the Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky areas. For more information on BPBS’s attorneys, practice areas and specific services, visit www.bpbslaw.com or call 513-721-1350.

Kathryn J. Bross practices in the firm’s Real Estate Group. Bross’ practice includes a variety of real estate transactions, including the disposition or acquisition of real property and lease transactions of commercial or residential property. Before joining KMK Law, Bross worked for GE Aviation where she performed research, contract revision and drafting in several corporate transactional areas. Bross earned her J.D. from the University of Cincinnati College of Law in 2014, where she was a Notes and Comments Editor of the Cincinnati Law Review and was selected as a participant in the Entrepreneurship and Community Development Clinic. Prior to attending law school Bross worked for an international non-profit as a site coordinator and project manager. She earned her B.A. from The Ohio State University in 2010. Bross is admitted to practice law in Ohio.

Meaghan K. FitzGerald practices in the firm’s Litigation Group. Prior to joining KMK Law, FitzGerald served as an intern in the Office of Congressional Affairs of the U.S. Department of Commerce, National Telecommunications & Information Administration (NTIA) in Washington, D.C., designing and compiling databases for the candidate selection process of the First Responder Network Board. She also researched and prepared materials for Assistant Secretary of NTIA to use when testifying before Congress. FitzGerald earned her J.D. from The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law in 2014, where she served as a Mentor in the Law and Leadership Program and as a Moritz Admissions Ambassador. She earned her B.A. from Duke University in 2011. FitzGerald is admitted to practice law in Ohio.

Shannon D. Lawson practices in the firm’s Business Representation & Transactions Group. He focuses his practice in the areas of mergers and acquisitions and business planning. Lawson earned his J.D. from the University of Kentucky in 2014, where he was a member of the Kentucky Journal of Equine, Agriculture & Natural Resources Law and served as vice president of the Black Law Student Association. While in law school, Lawson worked as a law clerk for Landrum & Shouse in Lexington, Kentucky, where he drafted motions for summary judgment and performed legal research. Prior to law school, Lawson worked several years as an internal auditor for Ashland Inc., where he led an array of financial and operational audits. He also worked as an internal auditor for E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., a Fortune 100 company, and was a corporate accountant at Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, now a part of Pfizer. Lawson is a certified public accountant (Delaware, 2009). He earned his B.S. from Delaware State University in 2001, cum laude. Lawson is admitted to practice law in Ohio.

Sarah A. Vonderbrink practices in the firm’s Litigation Group. Prior to joining KMK Law, Vonderbrink was a co-mediator for the Family Alternative Dispute Clinic, Mediation Center of Charlottesville, Virginia, where she co-mediated parental disputes regarding custody, visitation and child support. Vonderbrink earned her J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law in 2014. While attending law school, she spent her summers working at the Kentucky Court of Appeals and at regional law firms researching legal issues on appeal from Kentucky circuit courts and gaining experience in the legal skills of mediation, deposing parties, attending motion hours and trials. She earned her B.A. from the University of Richmond in 2010, cum laude. Vonderbrink is admitted to practice law in Kentucky.

About Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL

The law firm of Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL (KMK®), based in Cincinnati, Ohio, is a nationally-recognized law firm delivering sophisticated legal solutions to businesses of all sizes — from Fortune 100 corporations to start-up companies. Chambers USA: America’s Leading Business Lawyers® 2014 recognized KMK as a leading law firm in Ohio in Corporate and Mergers & Acquisitions, General Commercial Litigation, and Bankruptcy & Restructuring. KMK earned three national rankings in Commercial Litigation, Corporate Law, and Venture Capital Law and 37 metropolitan rankings in the 2015 “Best Law Firms” report by U.S. News and Best Lawyers. Founded in 1954, KMK has approximately 110 lawyers and a support staff of 150 employees. Additional information is available at www.kmklaw.com.

Ten Alums included on Best Lawyers in America list of 2015

COLUMBUS, OH. -Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP is proud to announce that ten Vorys attorneys, who are University of Cincinnati College of Law alumni, have been included on the 2015 Best Lawyers in America list. Because Best Lawyers is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey in which more than 39,000 leading attorneys cast almost 3.1 million votes on the legal abilities of other lawyers in their practice areas, and because lawyers are not required or allowed to pay a fee to be listed, inclusion in Best Lawyers is considered a singular honor. Corporate Counsel magazine has called Best Lawyers “the most respected referral list of attorneys in practice.”

The attorneys, their practice areas and the year they graduated are listed below.

One-hundred and ten attorneys from Vorys were named to the 2015 Best Lawyers in America List.

About Vorys: Vorys was established in 1909 and has grown to be one of the largest Ohio-based law firms with nearly 375 attorneys in six offices in Columbus, Cincinnati, Cleveland and Akron, Ohio; Washington, DC; Houston, Texas; and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Vorys currently ranks as one of the 200 largest law firms in the United States according to American Lawyer magazine. For more information, please visit www.vorys.com.

Alum, Oliver S. Howard '79 named as 2015 Best Lawyer

GableGotwals shareholder Oliver S. Howard was recently named as 2015 Best Lawyers in America "Lawyer of the Year" for Appellate Law in Tulsa.

Howard received his JD from the University of Cincinnati in 1979, his PhD from Hebrew Union College in 1978, his masters from Abilene Christian College in 1970 and his BA from Oklahoma Christian College in 1967.

Only a single lawyer in each practice area and designated metropolitan area is honored as the “Lawyer of the Year” by Best Lawyers.

Honorees are selected based on particularly impressive voting averages received during peer-review assessments. Receiving this designation reflects the high level of respect a lawyer has earned among other leading lawyers in the same community and practice area for ability, professionalism and integrity.

GableGotwals is a full-service law firm of more than 90 attorneys representing a diversified client base in Oklahoma, the Southwest and across the nation.

Cincinnati, Ohio; Columbus, Ohio (October 9, 2014): Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP is pleased to announce that the following University of Cincinnati alumni were selected for inclusion in Best Lawyers in America 2015. The number in parentheses refers to the number of years (in five-year increments) that the attorney has been listed.

Catherine T. Dunlay, Health Care Law

Earl K. Messer, Construction Law

Laura A. Ringenbach, Environmental Law

About Best Lawyers

Best Lawyers is the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the legal profession. The Best Lawyers lists of attorneys are compiled by conducting exhaustive peer-review surveys in which tens of thousands of leading lawyers confidentially evaluate their professional peers. If the votes for an attorney are positive enough for inclusion in Best Lawyers, that attorney must maintain those votes in subsequent polls to remain on the list for each edition. Lawyers are not permitted to pay any fee to participate in or be included on the lists.

About Taft

At Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP, delivering outstanding legal performance to help clients succeed is what drives and motivates our more than 400 attorneys every day. Taft has offices in Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus and Dayton, Ohio; Chicago; Illinois; Indianapolis, Indiana; Covington, Kentucky; and Phoenix, Arizona. The firm practices across a wide range of industries, in virtually every area of law, including Business and Finance; Litigation; Labor and Employment; Intellectual Property; Business Restructuring, Bankruptcy and Creditor Rights; Environmental; Health and Life Sciences; Private Client Services; Real Estate; and Tax. With a proven track record of experience since 1885, the firm offers breadth and depth of legal expertise coupled with a trusted business perspective to help our clients, big and small, regionally, nationally and internationally, reach their goals. For more information, please visit www.taftlaw.com.

Attorneys Corey Hamilton and Theresa Nelson Join Strauss Troy

Firm Expands With Additional Expertise in Business and Litigation

CINCINNATI, OH--(Marketwired - October 15, 2014) - Strauss Troy, a leading law firm in Ohio and Kentucky, announces that attorneys Corey Hamilton and Theresa Nelson have joined the firm.

"These two talented attorneys bring notable expertise to the services we are able to provide our business and litigation clients," said Marshall Dosker, Strauss Troy president. "Corey provides a strong core of business and real estate knowledge including key intellectual property experience, while Theresa has significant trial experience in a wide variety of matters including labor and employment disputes."

Attorney Corey Hamilton focuses his practice on corporate and business advisory services including contract negotiations and intellectual property, as well as real estate transactions and commercial finance. He has successfully negotiated multiple large, company-wide outsourcing contracts for Fortune 1000 clients and has represented clients in more than 100 commercial and multi-family real estate closings. Hamilton is licensed to practice law in Ohio and in the U.S. District Court -- Southern District of Ohio.

He is a member of the Ohio Bar Association, Cincinnati Bar Association, International Association for Contract and Commercial Management, Licensing Executive Society, the Ohio School Boards Association Sports and Entertainment Law Committee and the Cincinnati Chapter of the NAIOP Commercial Real Estate Development Association. Hamilton earned his Juris Doctor (J.D.) from the University of Cincinnati's Taft College of Law and his bachelor's degree from Indiana University. He is also certified by Harvard Law School's Program on Negotiation.

Attorney Theresa Nelson focuses on representing clients in complex labor and employment, commercial, product liability and general civil litigation. She has represented clients throughout the country in state and federal courts at both the trial and appellate levels. Nelson is licensed to practice law in Ohio, Kentucky, the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, the U.S. District Court -- Southern District Ohio and Eastern District of Michigan.

She is a member of the Ohio State Bar Association and the Kentucky Bar Association, and she is a board member of the Ohio Legal Assistance Foundation, the Invisible Kids Project and the University of Cincinnati College of Law Alumni Association. Nelson earned her J.D. from the University of Cincinnati's Taft College of Law, and she completed a fellowship from the Glenn M. Weaver Institute for Law and Psychiatry. She earned her bachelor's degree from Ohio University.

Nelson has been named an Ohio Super Lawyers Rising Star for four consecutive years and a Cincy Magazine Leading Lawyer in Personal Injury for three consecutive years. She has been honored in the National Trial Lawyers Top 100 Trial Lawyers, and is a lifetime member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum and Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum. She is also a graduate of the Ohio State Bar Association's Leadership Academy and the Cincinnati Bar Association's Cincinnati Academy of Leadership for Lawyers (CALL) Class XV.

About Strauss Troy

As a full-service law firm founded in 1953, Strauss Troy has diverse expertise and a history of proven success. No matter what issue you face, the firm has the right professionals, working together as a team, to get you the answers you need quickly and affordably. Strauss Troy's Practice Groups include: Corporate | Business, Criminal | White Collar Defense, Domestic Relations | Family Law, Labor | Employment, Litigation, Municipal | Government, Real Estate | Finance, Tax Planning | Compliance and Trust | Estate Planning.

Strauss Troy, a leading law firm in the Greater Cincinnati | Northern Kentucky region, is a Martindale-Hubbell Top Ranked Law Firm™ in Fortune Magazine and a U.S. News & World Report Best Law Firm. Many of its attorneys are honored as peer-rated Martindale-Hubbell AV Preeminent™ Attorneys, Best Lawyers in America, Super Lawyers and Rising Stars

James E. Burke was named the Best Lawyers 2015 Bet-the-Company Litigation “Lawyer of the Year” in Cincinnati.

Louis F. Gilligan was named the Best Lawyers 2015 Product Liability Litigation, Plaintiffs "Lawyer of the Year" in Cincinnati

Daniel E. Izenson was named the Best Lawyers 2015 Construction Litigation “Lawyer of the Year” in Cincinnati.

Joseph L. Trauth, Jr. was named the Best Lawyers 2015 Land Use & Zoning Law “Lawyer of the Year” in Cincinnati.

Mark J. Weber was named the Best Lawyers 2015 Real Estate Law “Lawyer of the Year” in Cincinnati.

Since it was first published in 1983, Best Lawyers has become regarded as a definitive guide to legal excellence. Best Lawyers is based on a peer-review survey in which more than 52,000 leading attorneys cast more than 5.5 million votes on the legal abilities of other lawyers in their practice areas.

In addition to the recognition as 2015 "Lawyers of the Year," these five KMK attorneys have been recognized in the 2015 Best Lawyers publication for several areas of practice. The listings below include the year the attorney was first recognized by The Best Lawyers in America.

James E. Burke (2006)

Bet-the-Company Litigation

Commercial Litigation

Corporate Law

Litigation – Securities

Louis F. Gilligan (1989)

Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants

Product Liability Litigation – Defendants

Product Liability Litigation – Plaintiffs

Daniel E. Izenson (2012)

Commercial Litigation

Litigation – Construction

Litigation – Real Estate

Joseph L. Trauth, Jr. (2007)

Land Use & Zoning Law

Litigation – Land Use & Zoning

Litigation – Real Estate

Real Estate Law

Mark J. Weber (2007)

Real Estate Law

Nine University of Cincinnati College of Law Alumni Selected for Inclusion in Best Lawyers in America 2015

Cincinnati, Ohio; Columbus, Ohio (October 9, 2014): Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP is pleased to announce that the following University of Cincinnati College of Law alumni were selected for inclusion in Best Lawyers in America 2015. The number in parentheses refers to the number of years (in five-year increments) that the attorney has been listed.

Additionally the publication has designated Ms. Canton as Cincinnati “Lawyer of the Year” in the Labor Law – Management Practice area.

About Best Lawyers

Best Lawyers is the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the legal profession. The Best Lawyers lists of attorneys are compiled by conducting exhaustive peer-review surveys in which tens of thousands of leading lawyers confidentially evaluate their professional peers. If the votes for an attorney are positive enough for inclusion in Best Lawyers, that attorney must maintain those votes in subsequent polls to remain on the list for each edition. Lawyers are not permitted to pay any fee to participate in or be included on the lists.

About Taft

At Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP, delivering outstanding legal performance to help clients succeed is what drives and motivates our more than 400 attorneys every day. Taft has offices in Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus and Dayton, Ohio; Chicago; Illinois; Indianapolis, Indiana; Covington, Kentucky; and Phoenix, Arizona. The firm practices across a wide range of industries, in virtually every area of law, including Business and Finance; Litigation; Labor and Employment; Intellectual Property; Business Restructuring, Bankruptcy and Creditor Rights; Environmental; Health and Life Sciences; Private Client Services; Real Estate; and Tax. With a proven track record of experience since 1885, the firm offers breadth and depth of legal expertise coupled with a trusted business perspective to help our clients, big and small, regionally, nationally and internationally, reach their goals. For more information, please visit www.taftlaw.com.

Boston, MA 10/08/2014 – AEterna Zentaris Inc. (USA) (NASDAQ:AEZS), which is a specialty biopharmaceutical company, announced the election of Philip A. Theodore as its Senior Vice President and Chief Administrative Secretary. He will also act the company’s General Counsel, as well as corporate Secretary. According to the company’s press release, he will be engaged with managing several functions, including corporate development, human resources, legal as well as administrative operations.

Theodore’s Experiences

Before associating with AEterna Zentaris Inc. (USA) (NASDAQ:AEZS), Theodore was playing the role of Vice President at Zep, Inc. (NYSE:ZEP), which is a leading chemical packaged products’ company. At the previous company, he was also enjoying the roles of the General Counsel and Corporate Secretary. Before his tenure at Zep, he worked with BioReliance Corporation for a period of almost one year between Sept 2008 and April 2009. He was employed at BioReliance in the capacity of a VP of its Corporate Development, Compliance and Legal. From Sept 2006 to Sept 2007, he was the Senior VP and General Counsel at John H. Ahrland Company. Prior to that, from 2004 to Aug 2006, he was the VP, General Secretary and Corporate Secretary at Serologicals Corporation. Apart from this, Theodore had been a partner in the corporate practice of an Atlanta-based law firm, King & Spalding, LLP. He served at the firm for a long period spanning from 1986 to 2003.

Theodore has graduated from the University of Cincinnati College of Law. He gained the B.A. degree in Political Science from Chattanooga’s University of Tennessee. On the occasion of joining the new company, he said that he finds it an exciting opportunity to join AEterna Zentaris Inc. (USA) (NASDAQ:AEZS) during its transition phase. The company is transiting into an operating specialty biopharmaceutical company that develops and commercializes new treatments in endocrinology and oncology. Theodore said that the company is on the right track to becoming a commercial-focused entity and he seeks to pay his contribution in its becoming a sustainable, successful and competitive organization.